I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.
I do have a lot of music out.
After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?'
Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.
My first album was completed in three months.
I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.
When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he recorded sober - fans were decidedly lukewarm.
I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.
I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.
I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.
It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.
'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.
The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.
Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.
Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
Who really needs a new album from me?
Every time I do a dance track it's like I'll get a heart attack, because it depends heavily on the video, the hook line, the stars and the promotion. Any of these factors fail, the song fails.
'Reflection' and 'Going Nowhere' would've been great singles because that's the exact sound that we wanted to achieve.
I have 'Purple Rain' on purple vinyl.
If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.
I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.
